Authors: Ra'anan S. Bouston (Editor), Annette Yoshiko Reed (Editor), Annette Yoshiko Reed
ISBN-13: 9780521831024, ISBN-10: 0521831024
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ra'anan S. Boustan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. A scholar of early Jewish mysticism, relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the history of the Jews in the Second Temple Period, he has published studies on early Jewish mystical poetry and the role of gender and sexuality within Hellenistic Jewish thought, among other topics.
Annette Yoshiko Reed is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. She has contributed to the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vigiliae Christianae, and Jewish Studies Quarterly, and is co-editor of The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Maps the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.
Introduction : "in Heaven as it is on Earth" | 1 | |
1 | The bridge and the ladder : narrow passages in late antique visions | 19 |
2 | "Heavenly steps" : Manilius 4.119-121 and its background | 34 |
3 | Heavenly ascent, angelic descent, and the transmission of knowledge in 1 Enoch 6-16 | 47 |
4 | "Connecting Heaven and Earth" : the function of the hymns in Revelation 4-5 | 67 |
5 | Working overtime in the afterlife; or, no rest for the virtuous | 85 |
6 | Earthly sacrifice and heavenly incense : the law of the priesthood in Aramaic Levi and Jubilees | 103 |
7 | Who's on the throne? : revelation in the long year | 123 |
8 | The earthly monastery and the transformation of the heavenly city in late antique Egypt | 142 |
9 | Contextualizing Heaven in third-century North Africa | 159 |
10 | Bringing the heavenly academy down to earth : approaches to the imagery of divine pedagogy in the East Syrian tradition | 174 |
11 | Angels in the architecture : temple art and the poetics of praise in the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice | 195 |
12 | The collapse of celestial and chthonic realms in a late antique "Apollonian invocation" (PGM 1262-347) | 213 |
13 | In Heaven as it is in Hell : the cosmology of Seder Rabbah di-Bereshit | 233 |
14 | The faces of the moon : cosmology, genesis, and the Mithras liturgy | 275 |
15 | "O paradoxical fusion!" : Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and cosmology (Orations 38-40) | 296 |